underpromote
verbEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin prōmoveō Latin prōmōtusbor. English promote English underpromote From under- + promote.
- derived from promote English underpromote From under- + promote
- derived from *moweō Latin moveō Latin prōmoveō Latin prōmōtusbor✻
- derived from *per-der✻
Definitions
To promote inadequately.
- It was a teen party sponsored by the hip-hop radio station Hot 97 (WQHT-FM), and maybe an underpromoted one: much of the room was empty.
To promote (a pawn that has crossed the board) to a less powerful piece than a queen,…
To promote (a pawn that has crossed the board) to a less powerful piece than a queen, which is sometimes strategically useful.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for underpromote. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA